Floppies?
 

Yesterday I was cleaning out some boxes that I had stored forever and I discovered about 20 floppy disks (the 3x5's) tucked away and forgotten until now. I would have just thrown them out, but when I looked at the labels they contained pictures that I would love to have as well as a number of essays I wrote about a million years ago and wouldn't mind revisiting.

So is there any way of getting the info off those floppies short of raiding Grandma's attic and making off with her old computer that still has slots for floppies? Or are those disks just doomed to go to the landfill west of town without me ever to look at their content?

Most computer repair shops would be able to access the contents and transfer to a cd for you I'd think.

or there's that...lol

Hey thanks Jim! Interesting site. Reminds me of the people who still love vinyl LP's.

Looks nice, but how do you know if Sam has a Dell? There are a good number of stores that sell external diskette drives in a wide range of brands.

Shouldn't matter. Usb plug and play

•spoken in to my phone

Maybe. It's branded as a Dell drive tho. That kinda threw me off.

BTW, now I get that "spoken into my phone" thing. I'm guessing your phone has a speech2text component.

yeah... not as cool as Limey's though transference, but pretty convenient just the same.

mail them to me. I have such a usb/3.5 inch floppy drive. I'll download the contents and email them back to you.

or maybe the local fedex store could do such a task for you. $$

How about 5.25 inch drives?

I have a few of those too, but none that are usb/floppy. Does that answer your question?

I'd have to resurrect the machine(s) that has a 5.25 drive, and then plug in a usb drive as the destination, carry the usb drive to a "modern" computer and proceed as before.

8 inch? Now that is major old school.

I used to have a pair of those eight inch drives as an external unit. I traded them for a BetaMax professional VCR years and years ago.

Pam

I have a running Compaq Presario w/3.5 drive installed.